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To: avenir
I think you're mistaken about Catholic Gentiles not getting the "memo" that Paul is "our" Apostle.

As far as can be ascertained by (admittedly traces of) evidence, ALL of the Apostles went to the Gentiles. Even Peter, the "Apostle to the Jews," and James who was head of the Church in Jerusalem and martyred there, ministered also to Gentiles.

As far as we know (and some of this is based on physical traces --- buildings, graves, steles and other monuments --- which have now long been destroyed, especially in what are now Muslim lands) --- various apostles ministered and died in Spain, in Rome, in Egypt, in Jerusalem, in Scythia and Parthia, in Ethiopia, in Armenia, in western Assyria and the Nineveh plain, and on various Greek islands.

They all ministered both to Gentiles and to Jews in various cities in the Roman Empire and even beyond the borders of the Empire.

I'm not going into a lot of detail, because I don't think we know a lot of detail. I just read ISIS ransacked Mosul Museum and destroyed ancient manuscripts and books in its library, dynamited churches and bulldozed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud.

77 posted on 06/20/2015 4:36:41 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification." - Romans 14:19)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

My point was for the purpose of countering Peter as somehow greater in apostleship than Paul. God chose both, used both, and we’ve all benefitted from it. You’re correct in that Peter wasn’t ONLY an apostle to Jews. Paul wasn’t ONLY an apostle to the Gentiles, either. Yet I didn’t invent their designation as such in Scripture. It’s there.

To my original curiosity, if Paul was really the one God primarily used to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, why don’t Catholics—who are mainly Gentiles—give him credit? All those points I alluded to from Galatians are arguments Paul used to defend his apostolic ministry from the charge that it was somehow inferior to that of “pillars” like Cephas and James.

God shows no partiality. Neither should we.


107 posted on 06/20/2015 6:14:00 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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